Easily as raw as Eddie Murphy's old routines, but hardly half as delirious, The Original Kings of Comedy -- Spike Lee's crossover hit of a stand up concert film -- is profane but not provocative. Its stars each work the same terrain: gags (gentle and gratingly lame) about race, and coarse bits about sex, parenting, and poverty. Sometimes these are resonant low down blues; sometimes they're just low -- bordering on the crudeness that Lee decried as minstrelsy last year in ''Bamboozled.''
Image credit: Kings: Sean Murphy
JOKER'S WILD The Original Kings of Comedy hold court on stage
EW's GRADE
B-Details Release Date: Feb 27, 2001; Movie Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Documentary; With: Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Bernie Mac; Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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